@John Snyder Jr

If you have store version installed.

Check this path

C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

Look for file content.xml  - then remove that file.

Restart the sim and see what happens. The file will be recreated.

Hope it helps

1 hour ago, SAPilot said:

C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

Look for file content.xml  - then remove that file.

Restart the sim and see what happens. The file will be recreated.

Hope it helps

I had high hopes for this solution but same old thing, still can't get passed the fly part 😞

I have fixed my problem. The google map replacement mod will not run with MSFS Sim Update 9. This mod right here.......... https://flightsim.to/file/19345/msfs-2020-google-map-replacement

You have to go into your control panel and programs and delete it. Thanks for all your suggestions guys! 

One more suggestion John Jr Sir, if you think of yourself as not particularly tech savvy--what the heck are you doing installing the google map mod, and any other 'mods'?  This sim is updated very regularly, and mods may or may not work.  Plus, you don't need google map mod anyway.  It's frequently this sort of thing that results in your kind of request for help.  Follow the KISS method and you too can have a fabulous time w/ a minimum of problems.

I don’t think the two are comparable. Tech savvy might be where to start with troubleshooting an issue to narrow down a problem occurring in complex software. Installing mods are usually made to be simple; double clicking on installer.exe or dragging and dropping a folder into another. 

23 minutes ago, NZ255 said:

I don’t think the two are comparable. Tech savvy might be where to start with troubleshooting an issue to narrow down a problem occurring in complex software. Installing mods are usually made to be simple; double clicking on installer.exe or dragging and dropping a folder into another. 

Yes of course installing mods is easy usually--and my point was the more mods, the greater the potential need for troubleshooting skills as his case and myriad others including the frequent admonition to empty your Comm Folder pre new SU just in case of conflicts, etc.

48 minutes ago, NZ255 said:

I don’t think the two are comparable. Tech savvy might be where to start with troubleshooting an issue to narrow down a problem occurring in complex software. Installing mods are usually made to be simple; double clicking on installer.exe or dragging and dropping a folder into another. 

Well yes, but -- the Google mod is not one I'd recommend a non-tech savvy person install.  That is the ONE mod and maybe the only one I would say that about.

It's also weird that it says it is SU9 compatible on the .to site.  Maybe it could be re-downloaded to the latest version and it would work.

10 hours ago, John Snyder Jr said:

I have fixed my problem. The google map replacement mod will not run with MSFS Sim Update 9. This mod right here.......... https://flightsim.to/file/19345/msfs-2020-google-map-replacement

You have to go into your control panel and programs and delete it. Thanks for all your suggestions guys! 

Glad it's sorted. When you said your sim was stuck at 95% loading it was a dead give away it was the google mod, as I mentioned earlier. Many have had the exact same issue.  Had your removed the mods entries in the windows host(s) file your sim would load just fine - without the mod, of course.

9 hours ago, Noel said:

This sim is updated very regularly, and mods may or may not work.  Plus, you don't need google map mod anyway.  It's frequently this sort of thing that results in your kind of request for help.  Follow the KISS method and you too can have a fabulous time w/ a minimum of problems.

Agree 100%, Noel.  After every update people can't understand why their sim won't load a flight and the majority of the time it boils down to this mod and the entries in the host(s) file preventing them from connecting to servers.  I haven't read the mod's documentation as I never felt the need to try it, but these changes to the hosts should be stated in BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS  (if people even bother to read it). 

Like you, I learned very early in my simming days:  Be very choosy and vet every single mod/change you make to the sim - more is not always better and K.I.S.S..

There's no need to delete the Google mod, or to manually edit your hosts file. 

All you have to do is shut the mod down normally.  When you do that, it cleans up after itself and deletes those entries... which are, btw, described in the mod documentation.